Thursday, April 05. 2012

One of the new features I'm pretty excited about is the new postgis gui batch features that allows not only for multiple import of shape files, but also multiple export of shapefiles. It will work fine with your postgis 1.5 databases as well. We have windows standalone gui binaries at http://www.postgis.org/download/windows.

Is this cool or what? Here are some screen shots with it loaded as a pgAdmin plugin.

Import Tab

Export Tab

Add Table

Hold the ctrl key to select multiple tables/views

Supports multiple geometry columns

If your table has multiple geometry columns have option of changing to different one

Waiting for PostGIS 2.1 - Faster Geography
Depesz has this series he's had for a while going called Waiting for PostgreSQL ... where he showcases the new features coming in the upcoming release of PostgreSQL pretty much as soon as they are committed to the PostgreSQL Git repo. It's a simple idea

I&#8217;ve also had really good experiences with sqllite. It is especially useful when you need a shapefile-like portability but can&#8217;t sacrifice column names down to shapefile supported length.By the way, FeatureServer supports sqllite directly. It is also supported indirectly via OGR in several other applications.

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